How well does the class prepare you for the exam ?
I am looking at scheduling the VCP5 install configure class (not the fast track one). I have been assigned the task of getting VMWare ESXi up and running for my group. I will be doing this on Cisco...
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VMware design - SRM, vMotion and redundancy
Greetings VMware geeks, I am currently consulting a company with VMware, and i've met some .. uncertaints on my way, and i would like to hear if the community has any advice The current setup is as...
View Articleit seems like I have to reinstall vmware tools every time I update my OS
5.02 1031769 Win 7 host OS, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS guest OS The guest OS was telling me that it was due for an update and restart, so I restarted it. Now I can't see any of my mounted hgfs folders. So I...
View ArticleWorkstation 9 not recognizing PCI-E NIC
Hi Folks, I've been searching the web but can't seem to find any solutions to my problem. Host OS: Ubuntu 12.04vmWare: Workstation 9 guest OS: Ubuntu 12.04 My pc has:*2 on board nic's*1 WLAN PCI-E...
View ArticleAnyone interested in VCP5.1 4 weekend course starting this weekend at wembley
Please contact me. Its in very good acadamey and for just £1100!!
View ArticleESXi 5.1 - can't boot new VM from OS disc
I'm trying to boot off a Server 2012 DVD to install a new VM. I am using the host DVD-RW drive. I can attach the drive to an existing VM and browse the DVD (it's not the drive) and I tested the...
View ArticleNetworking for ZFS based "virtual storage appliance"
HiI'm setting up an ESXI 5.1 machine to test performance / proof of concept with a "storage appliance" in a VM on a host.Right now I'm using a version of solaris (nexenta community edition) to test. I...
View ArticleLoading Console
I have seen others complainig about this. I am trying to load the vCenter Orchestrator Lab HOL-OPS-07 it just sits forever on the loading console screen..
View ArticleSnapshots Change Log
My supervisor wants to move to Veeam for performing backups. I know I can do this for most VMs, but I'm concerned about some of them and can't find the necessary documentation to understand exactly...
View ArticleFailed insertion of statistics - vSphere 4.1.0
Hello,I have a problem, when viewing the "events" shown in my vCenter I get the following error "Stats insertion failed for entity XXXX due to ODBC error".I get this error for a bunch of my ESX's. I...
View ArticleIs there some sort of vMotion/Enhanced vMotion CPU compatibility tool in...
Firstly apologies is this is a silly question I am a relatively newbie VMware user only just finished the "VMware vSphere, Install, Configure, Manage course and my exam is a couple of months away....
View ArticleInterested in script critique
This script: 1. Connects to VC entered by user.2. Reads virtual machine names from a csv.3. Sets vCPU, memory.4. Sets video memory (from function - Thanks Alan).5. Sets CPU/MMU to...
View Articlevapp 56 to 57 upgrade missing some dashboard interactions
All, just updated 56 to 57 and noticed that I am missing some interactions between widgets on dashboards. Anybody else come across this?
View ArticleCLoud computing workload trace log file
Hi. i need a cloud system workload trace based on virtualization. in parallel workload archive (http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/labs/parallel/workload/) and in grid workload archive...
View ArticleHow to configure Dell Cachecade for ESXi
What's the procedure to configure Dell Cachecade for use with ESXi 5.1? (assuming its supported) I have a Dell 620 with 6 SAS drives and a 200Gb SSD - how can I configure it to boost IO of the VMs...
View ArticleNavigating from VcDatastore to VcHostSystem
I'm developing a workflow that takes a VC:Datastore object as input and needs to locate one of the VcHostSystem's that has the datastore mounted, yet I am seeing some inconsistent results. Taking the...
View ArticlevSphere SDRS
Has anyone used Storage Clusters or SDRS and what was your use case and how do you think it performed for you?
View ArticleBest way to extend extended VMFS partition
I have an ESX 4 U2 server on a DL360 on which I recently increased the size of the raid array by adding two drives. Now, the ESX host sees the new space but I can't use it to extend the VMFS volume...
View ArticlePerc6/i and ESXi 5.1 - VM creation failures
Hello, This is my first venture into RAID. I'm running an AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ on a ECS A780GM-A mobo with 8GB Ram. This is just a home VM server for educational purposes. I recently purchased a...
View ArticleCan I Clone a Running Production Server Win2k8 R2 and Produce it as Secondary...
Hi all, My question is: Can I clone a running Production Server based on Windows 2008 R2 and produce this Cloned VM as secondary Windows 2008 R2 Server with just renaming HOST name and joining this...
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